Bronze-Script Lexicon — 420 Phrases
The whole Classic re-written in bronze script — the atelier's own alphabet for seals, symbols and private marks.
- Year
- 2016 – ongoing
- Status
- Ongoing
- Form
- Seal & personal symbol
- Materials
- Designed characters; realised in cast bronze, carved stone, engraved metal, gold leaf on wall
- Dimensions
- 420 phrases · applied at any scale
The work
Bronze script — the writing cast into ritual vessels three thousand years ago — was the first Chinese script to be designed rather than scratched. The atelier has re-drawn 420 phrases from the Classic in this script, each one researched from oracle-bone and bronze sources and then re-designed as a single, living form.
From this lexicon come the atelier's most personal commissions: a family name cast in bronze, a founding date carved into a seal, a wall of gold characters written for one building.
Five-Element seals — the set
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Seal impression on paper
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Carving bronze-script — process
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Cultural source
Oracle-bone script, Zhou bronze inscriptions, Zhou-dynasty large seal script; the vocabulary of the Shanhai Jing.
The artist's transformation
Scholarly accuracy first, then authorship: every character can be traced to its source and is nonetheless unmistakably the atelier's hand.
Making
Research → drawing → vector master → cast, carved, engraved or painted by hand at the commissioned scale.
Scale & variation
A signet ring; a seal set; a bronze plaque; a mural; a façade.
Placement
Personal symbols, corporate marks, thresholds, feature walls.
Certificate & provenance
Every completed commission is delivered with a certificate of authenticity, a unique work ID, a cultural source note and a making record, and is entered into the atelier's private provenance archive.
Commission
Commission a work in this direction
Made to order, price on request; installations are project-based.
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